Trump Called Iraqi Officials 'Thieves' After Oval Office Visit
Source: Newsweek Magazine
BY JACK MOORE ON 2/9/18 AT 8:01 AM
U.S. relations with Iraq have undoubtedly worsened under President Donald Trump, not least when the country was addedalthough later removedfrom his so-called travel ban on six Muslim majority countries last year.
And the latest revelations about Trump's private comments about Iraqi officials are unlikely to smooth things over: It has emerged that after an Iraqi delegation visited the president in the Oval Office last year, Trump described them the most accomplished groups of thieves hed ever met, a former U.S. official told The Washington Post.
The comment was made in jest, the official said, but Trump appeared to suggest that the Iraqis had stolen from the U.S. Washington has given $1.7 billion in humanitarian assistance to Iraq since 2014 to help its war-ravaged infrastructure and economy.
It is not the first time that Trump has accused Iraqis of stealing from U.S. coffers. At a 2016 presidential campaign rally, he said: Iraq, crooked as hell. How about bringing baskets of moneymillions and millions of dollarsand handing it out?"
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-called-iraqi-officials-most-accomplished-group-thieves-oval-office-801914
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)PJMcK
(22,048 posts)Trump is an abomination.
Here's a heart, DonViejo. Your posts often make my day one way or another.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Thief that OrangeTurd is, he was simply acknowledging the level of expertise achieved by another group of professionals in his field
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)murderers.
I don't know that from first hand knowledge, but if China invaded America and killed a million men, women and children, I certainly would call them murderers if I were still around to do so.
Botany
(70,567 posts)Just because we ruined their water systems, their roads, their schools,
their country, their homes and cities, farms, stolen their oil, and created
ISIS and now they need "humanitarian assistance?"
When does this madness stop?
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)turbinetree
(24,713 posts)mirror, with drool running out of the corner of his mouth, just paid 25 million for defrauding human beings with his "Trump Scam University " ploy, not to mention what he did in Atlantic City, and his other "business" operations when not paying mom and pops, and contractors........................takes a lot of traitorous balls to pass judgement.......................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
lark
(23,148 posts)The real reason he hates them, they won't pay the blood money he's trying to extort. He always accuses others of the things that he himself does, and this is just another instance of being pissed because Iraqi leaders won't steal the oil from their country and give it all to him or baby girl.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Sad.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)That's about all he ever does, because he lacks any understanding of what his job entails. We could have had comedy gold if journalists had been present who asked him to unpack that statement, and had they pressed him for details.